Peninsula Enterprise, July 16, 1892
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers
The first issue of the Accomac Weekly Review, successor of the Accomac Democrat, Onancock with Mr. Charles I. Stengle as publisher, appeared this week. We extend to our brother in his new venture the right hand of fellowship, and hope he will find in the "art preservative," congenial and profitable employment.
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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsAfrican-Americans -- Religion
A camp-meeting of the colored people will be held on the old campground, near Wattsville, August 20th to 26th.
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Infrastructure -- Public : Colleges
G. Walter Mapp, son of Dr. J. E. Mapp, has been elected recently as assistant professor of English and history at William and Mary College. For a young man hardly out of his "teens" the appointment surely speaks well for his attainments.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Boat racing
Purse races, one open to all canoes, bateaux and skiffs 25 to 30 feet in length, will come off at Guilford steamboat wharf, Thursday, August 11th. A picnic held in connection with same will furnish ice cream, confectioneries, &c. See posters for full particulars.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racingInfrastructure -- Commercial - Race tracks
The races at Cape Charles this year promise to be of greater interest than ever before. Track newly built and now one of the best in the country, sprinklers and other appliances to keep down the dust, and a superb race program, assures their success beyond all doubt, and cannot fail to attract. Fuller particulars given later in other departments.
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Transportation -- Water - WharvesSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : PackingTransportation -- Road - MaintenanceTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racingInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving service
Chincoteague.
Mr. John A. M. Whealton is having a large wharf built opposite his store.
A large oyster shucking house is being built by John W. Bunting & Sons.
Our roads -- if our overseer could see as others see them -- perhaps, an improvement could be hoped for.
A very promising 2 year old colt, the fastest in upper Accomac, will be exhibited at our Fair this year by Mr. W. A. Hurley, the owner.
Three of our worthy citizens, Capt. O. F. Parker, H. Samuel Timmons and J. Mitchell Feddeman, had a narrow escape from drowning last week. They had been out sea fishing in yacht Flora and while coming in inlet under full sail, the yacht was caught by a whirlwind and turned over. The Capt. caught under mainsail was extricated with difficulty by his two companions on the bottom of the boat, when the boat capsizing the other way threw them into the water, where after a gallant fight between life and death Capt. Thomas Taylor went to their rescue. The three gentleman are veterans in the Life Saving Service -- and persons of less endurance than they -- would doubtless, at this time, be filling watery graves.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential construction
Marsh's Wharf.
A handsome dwelling for Capt William Barnes is nearing completion at this place.
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fields -- Crops - White potatoes : PricesTransportation -- Water - SteamboatsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - BaseballInfrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers
Onancock.
Potatoes shipped from Onancock this week in Jersey truck baskets have brought $1.75 to $2, notwithstanding the depression in the market.
An agent of the Clyde line of steamers arrived here last Wednesday, and has perfected arrangements, it is stated, which seems to be authentic, for running the Jane Mosely of that line from here to Washington, D. C., commencing Wednesday, 27th last. The wharf of Fosque & Boggs had been leased, it is said, for that purpose, with Mr. Frank T. Boggs agent. She will touch at other points on Eastern Shore as soon as other wharves can be secured.
In the match game of base ball here on Friday of last week, between Onancock and Crisfield nines, the former were victors by the score of 17 to 13.
Onancock now has a new paper, "The Accomac Weekly Review," edited by Mr. Charles I. Stengle. Long life and success to the enterprise. Onancock deserves a good newspaper.
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Sea -- Finfish - Catch : Trout
Temperanceville.
Our market is supplied daily with large quantities of fine sea trouts and tench mullet.
Letter From District Alliance Lecturer.
Farmers -- Farmers' organizations
EDITOR ENTERPRISE:
In your issue of last week, you have an editorial, charging me, by implication, with coming to the Eastern Shore in the interest of the "Third party." You seem to base your charge principally upon an alleged interview with the Cape Charles Headlight, in which it is stated, that I have said I would not vote for Cleveland. I do not remember having an interview with the editor of that paper, but did have a private conversation with him, in which I probably did say that I did not intend to vote for Cleveland. I claim that any declaration of such intention does not, in any way, affect my standing or loyalty as an Allianceman. Our order guarantees to every member his political liberty. It is not a Democratic organization, or a partisan organization of any kind. Nor does my declaration, made privately, that I would not support Mr. Cleveland justify the statement that "I approve high tariff tax notions, the force bill and other vicious schemes of the Republican party." I stand pledged to the demands of the Farmers' Alliance, in which there are no high tariff or force bill measures.
I have been a Democrat since I was old enough to vote and never voted any other than the straight Democratic ticket, beginning with James Buchanan in 1856. As an Allianceman, I am opposed to the force bill, opposed to the Republican Wall street financial policy, opposed to national banks, trusts and monopolies, opposed to demonitazation of silver (a Republican measure) and as much opposed to the infamous force bill as any man in the United States.
I am a tariff-for-revenue only man, and I am for free silver, and for all the demands of the Farmers' Alliance, as set forth in our National and State meetings. Born in Virginia I am a Virginian, and shall labor with Virginians to promote the best interests of the people of Virginia and the South. If these sentiments disqualify me as an Alliance lecturer, then I am ready to leave the lecture field.
Respectfully,
R. W. HARRIS, District Lecture F. A.
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Farmers -- Farmers' organizations
District lecturer, R. W. Harris, of the Farmers' Alliance speaks to the public through our columns in this issue, but his article will hardly dispel the belief that his mission to the Eastern Shore was a political one. Heralded as he was by circulars "to deliver a public address on the principles of the Farmers' Alliance and the attitude of the present industrial movement to the political parties" the inference was natural, as he says he is not a Republican and will not vote the Democratic Presidential ticket, that he came in the interest of the Third party and the people could not change that opinion if as the Pioneer reports, and correctly, we have no doubt, when questioned, "how he stood with reference to the Omaha platform," he replied, "The People's platform is all right; it just suits the Farmers' Alliance." It does not satisfy the Democrats of the Eastern Shore for a man to declare himself a Democrat as Mr. Harris does in his letter -- actions speak louder than words with them -- and his were not such as to dispel the cloud under which he came to them. We take it, as Mr. Harris asserts, that the Alliance Order guarantees to every member his political liberty and that it is not a partizan organization of any kind. We certainly do not question his right to vote as he chooses, but when we believe, as we did in his case, that he proposed to violate the rules of the Order by carrying politics into it, to mislead and deceive our people, we protested as was then our right and as we shall continue to do. The vagaries of the Third party may suit him, but he was doubtless convinced that the farmers of the Eastern Shore take no stock in them as he failed to fill a single appointment in Accomac and did not have an audience to air his particular notions to in Northampton.